NAEMSP® National EMS Medical Directors Course & Practicum® January 7-9, 2019 Austin, Texas

Course Co-Directors

Beth Adams, MA, BSN, RN, NRP, FAEMS

A nurse , Beth spent 20+ years as an EMS educator, prior to becoming the Quality Manager for the Fairfax Fire & Rescue Department (Virginia). She served two terms on the National Association of EMS ’ Board of Directors and was the 2008 recipient of NAEMSP's Keith Neely Outstanding Contribution to EMS Award. She represented NAEMSP on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration EMS Core Content Task Force and the National EMS Performance Measures Project. Beth is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership with The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science. She is a contributing author for multiple EMS textbooks and has presented regionally and nationally on EMS education, clinical care topics, management and quality improvement.

Robert A. Swor, DO, FACEP, FAEMS

Robert Swor DO, FACEP, FAEMS, has been an Emergency at William Beaumont in Royal Oak, Michigan for over 30 years. He serves as both the Research Director for the Department of Beaumont Health, and Director of EMS programs for Beaumont-Royal Oak. He serves as medical director for a number of local EMS agencies and is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. He has served as a past president of the National Association of EMS Physicians, and as the past Chairman of the State of Michigan EMS Coordinating Committee. He is currently Chair of the Board of Directors, for the National Registry for Emergency Medical Technicians. He is an active researcher and published widely in peer review publications on the topics of trauma, cardiac arrest resuscitation and quality improvement in EMS. Dr. Swor served as a technical advisor on a number of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration EMS projects, serves as an associate editor for Prehospital Emergency Care, and is a reviewer for a number of peer review journals. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and sub specialty certified in Emergency Medical Services, Bob was the 2017 recipient of the Ronald D. Stewart Award from NAEMSP in recognition of his impact on the growth and development of EMS as the out-of-hospital system of care that it is today.

Course Faculty

Peter Antevy, MD

Peter M. Antevy, MD is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine (EM) physician practicing in-hospital emergency medical care at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, a level I trauma and tertiary care center in South . Board-certified in pediatrics, emergency medicine and the complex subspecialty of EMS, he is also the founder of Pediatric Emergency Standards, Inc., and he serves as the Medical Director for Davie Fire-Rescue, Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Rescue, Southwest Ranches Fire Rescue and American , all in South Florida. Dr. Antevy also serves as Associate Medical Director for several other agencies including Palm Beach County, Florida and he is also the longstanding medical director for two highly-regarded paramedic training programs as well as several mobile integrated healthcare (MIHC) programs in greater Broward County, Florida. Dr. Antevy was recently appointed to serve as the lead pediatric EMS specialist/consultant for the highly-influential Metropolitan EMS Medical Directors Coalition. This highly-cohesive international consortium, known for envelope-pushing education and operational advances in 9-1-1 care, is largely comprised of the jurisdictional, accountable medical directors of the 50 to 60 largest municipalities in the U.S. and as well as several key U.S. federal agencies.

2019 Medical Director’s Course (MDC) Faculty 1 In turn, he has been the recipient of many regional, national and international honors and awards including the 2014 Raymond H. Alexander EMS Medical Director of the Year in Florida and the 2015 EMS 10 Innovator of the Year Award from the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Ron J. Anderson Memorial Award in Dallas, TX, the international public health service accolade bestowed for his far- reaching public health contributions in emergency medical care, particularly for his efforts to improve outcomes for critically ill and injured children. Most recently, Peter was named National Medical Director of the Year by the NAEMT. At the same time, Dr. Antevy remains a grounded, in-the-trenches EMS medical director as exemplified by his recent intrepid on-scene patient care at the Parkland, Florida high school shooting incident and, in turn, his connected follow-up of patients, families and rescuers. A world-class lecturer and training expert, he has become an admired and sought-after educator-speaker for innumerable state and national conferences.

Jeff Beeson, DO, FACEP, FAEMS

Dr. Jeff Beeson serves as the Chief Medical Officer at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, Texas. He has been involved in EMS over 25 years as an EMT, Paramedic, Flight Nurse and most recently as an EMS Medical Director. Jeff has been a pioneer in Integrated Health Delivery establishing multiple MIH programs and overseeing Medical Command Centers providing Nurse Navigation to 911 call centers. Dr. Beeson serves as the Medical Director and a Medical Team Manager for Texas A&M Task Force a FEMA and State US@R team.

Thomas H. Blackwell, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

Dr. Tom Blackwell is the Assistant Dean for Longitudinal Clinical Education and Director of the EMT Training Program at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville (USCSOMG) and is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Greenville Health System. Prior to joining faculty at USCSOMG, Tom was an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. He served as a clinical professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, and on the faculty of UNC- Charlotte in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Center for Homeland Security and Major Disasters. During his 18 years in Charlotte, Dr. Blackwell served as medical director for the Mecklenburg EMS Agency, the Charlotte Fire Department, 14 volunteer fire and rescue organizations, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department SWAT Team and Aviation Unit, the Charlotte Offices of the FBI and Secret Service, the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, and Carowinds amusement park. He also served as medical director for Bank of America Stadium, the Charlotte Motor Speedway, the Wachovia/Wells Fargo PGA Championship, and the Convention Center.

Dr. Blackwell assisted in the development of the new academic Department of Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the Greenville Health System and is the Director of Prehospital Medicine at GHS. He has served as a visiting professor at multiple universities and medical centers and has published numerous articles relating to his interests in EMS performance and response, and disaster medicine. He has won many awards for his research and commitment to Emergency Medicine.

Marina Del Rios, MD, MS

Dr. Marina Del Rios is Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Emergency Ultrasound Faculty, and Director of Social Emergency Medicine and Population Health. She is an active member of the Science Subcommittee of the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and Advocacy Ambassador of the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation of the American Heart Association (AHA). Dr. Del Rios is one of the project leads and Director of Community Engagement of the Illinois Heart Rescue Project, a state-wide QA/QI project tasked with more than doubling neurologically intact survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims. She has extensive experience with community engagement, CPR education, and cardiovascular health promotion in high-risk populations and has organized more than 500 community CPR training events in the state of Illinois. She was a member of the Committee on the Treatment of Cardiac Arrest of the Health Division of the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine) and is co-author on the 2015 Report "Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival: A Time To Act". She has received competitive funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and several private philanthropic foundations. Her current research focuses on community, pre-hospital, and interventions to improve cardiovascular health in low income, minority, and limited English proficiency

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Robert Dunne graduated from the University of Michigan’s Inteflex program (a combined bachelor’s degree MD program). He completed emergency medicine residency training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI where he was chief resident. He has served as EMS coordinator, associate program director and research director. He has held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University (WSU). He is currently the vice chair of emergency medicine and St John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit and associate professor at Wayne State University, School of Medicine.

Robert is a supervisory medical officer on MI-1 Disaster Medical Assistance team, a federal medical response team. He has been deployed for many disasters from 1997 to the present, including Katrina, the World Trade Center response and many US special events including presidential inaugurations and the G8 summit.

He serves on the State of Michigan Emergency Medical Services Coordinating Committee. He is past President of Michigan’s American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) chapter and current chair of the MCEP state EMS committee.

He is the author of peer reviewed papers, book chapters and educational materials. He lectures extensively on EMS, preparedness, cardiac arrest and topics in trauma and emergency medicine. Currently EMS medical director Detroit East Medical Control Authority and the of Detroit Fire Department. He is subspecialty board certified in EMS by the American Board of Medical Specialties and the director of the WSU EMS fellowship.

Dr Dunne has served as a tactical medical physician for the Detroit Metropolitan Airport Special Response Team and the Michigan FBI SWAT team. He has served as faculty for the basic SWAT course. Currently he is medical director of the Wayne County, Michigan Sherriff SWAT team and he is a Wayne County Special Deputy Sherriff.

William Fales, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

William Fales, MD serves as Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chief of the Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine for the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine. Since 1993, Dr. William Fales has served as EMS Medical Director for the Kalamazoo County Medical Control Authority and has practiced emergency medicine at Kalamazoo’s two regional . In 2015, Dr. Fales was appointed to the newly created position of State Medical Director for the Michigan Bureau of EMS, Trauma, and Preparedness. Prior to that Dr. Fales served as the Regional Medical Director for Healthcare Preparedness for southwest Michigan. A former paramedic and firefighter, Dr. Fales regularly responds to EMS field incidents and has created a successful EMS physician response program for senior residents and EMS fellows.

John Gallagher, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

John Gallagher, MD, has served as the medical director of Wichita/Sedgwick County EMS System (KS) since 2015. He served as a ski patroller and EMT prior to attending medical school at Temple University and completing his residency at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. Dr. Gallagher served as the EMS Medical Director for Winona Health (MN) and was an Adjunct Instructor of Emergency Medicine for Des Moines University (IA) from 2012-2015. John currently chairs the Standards and Practice Committee for NAEMSP and is on the Medical Advisory Committee of the Kansas Board of EMS. Credentialing of EMS by the EMS medical director is a huge area of interest. John presented at the American Heart Association Mission Lifeline conference on “Acute Coronary Syndrome: Rural Emergency Department and EMS Considerations.”

Francis Guyette, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAEMS

Dr. Guyette is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of and serves as the Medical Director for STAT MedEvac. He has spent over 20 years in EMS and has devoted his academic career to EMS research and management. He received his MD from Tulane University and completed residency, fellowship and public health training at the University of Pittsburgh.

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As the Medical Director for the nation’s largest non-profit critical care transport group, the advancement of evidenced based patient care is one of his core goals. Frank has examined prehospital care and safety with funding from the National Association of EMS Physicians, the United States Air Force, and the Foundation for Air Medical Research and Education (now the Medevac Foundation). Dr. Guyette has been recognized as one of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) “EMS 10: Innovators in EMS” and as the recipient of the Barbara A. Hess Award for Research and Education by the Association of .

Dr. Guyette studies prehospital resuscitation medicine with special emphasis on traumatic shock and cardiac arrest. He has developed a research program to study air medical transport of critically ill patients. The program is designed to develop evidence-based principles for the monitoring and treatment of patients during critical care transport. Collaborating with physicians from emergency medicine, trauma surgery and critical care medicine, he has studied prehospital airway management, point of care testing of lactate, and tissue oximetry to identify shock. Dr. Guyette is also active in prehospital workforce protection, participating in studies on the effects sleep, heat stress, and teamwork. These efforts have resulted in studies addressing sleep quality and fatigue in air medical providers, the effects of heat stress on the performance of providers, and the effect of teamwork on the incidence of adverse events.

John B. Holcomb, MD, FACS

John Bradley Holcomb received his M.D. from the University of Arkansas Medical School in 1985. Dr. Holcomb entered the U.S. Army in 1985 and completed his general surgery training in 1991. Dr Holcomb then deployed with the Joint Special Operations Command for the next decade, including the Battle of the Black Sea. From 2002 to 2008, COL Holcomb was the Commander of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research and Trauma Consultant for the Army General. Over the years he has deployed in multiple real-world operations. He is a three-time recipient of the Army’s Greatest Invention award. COL Holcomb retired from active duty in 2008 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Trauma Resuscitation Science from the American Heart Association, the United States Special Operations Command Medal, and the Service award from the American College of Surgery. He has been a member of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care since 2001. In 2008, Dr. Holcomb joined the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston as a Professor of Surgery and started the Division of Acute Care Surgery and the Center for Translational Injury Research. In 2016 he received the MAJ Jonathan Letterman award from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. In 2017 Dr Holcomb shifted his focus to entrepreneurship and innovation. Dr. Holcomb is actively involved in clinical medicine, education, research, consulting and entrepreneurship. He founded a health IT company, Decisio Health and is on the board of directors. He reviews papers for more than 25 journals, has published > 500 peer reviewed articles and serves on multiple boards. Dr. Holcomb and his wife, Dr. Kelly Wirfel, were married in 1998 and have 2 children.

Jon Krohmer, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

Board certified as an and EMS physician, Dr. Krohmer has been actively involved in EMS for over 40 years, first in his home state of Michigan, and then at the national level as an active member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and as a past president of the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP). Dr. Krohmer’s federal service began as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He went on to become the Director of the Health Services Corps for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at DHS and has provided medical expertise to the U.S> Coast Guard. He is currently the Director of the national Office of EMS at National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Acting Associate Administrator for Research and Program Development at NHTSA>

Douglas Kupas, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, EMT-P

Doug Kupas serves as the Commonwealth EMS Director for the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services for the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Dr. Kupas also serves as the Associate Chief Academic Officer for Medical Student and Resident Affairs for Geisinger Health System; Assistant Dean for Medical Student Affairs, Temple University School of Medicine at the Geisinger Clinical Campus; and Associate, Department of Emergency Medicine for Geisinger Medical Center. Doug is a paramedic and has been an active field EMS provider since 1980. Dr. Kupas is the former Chair of the Rural EMS Committee for the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Officials Medical Directors Council. Dr. Kupas attended medical school

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Dr. Kupas is a member of numerous local, state and national organizations. He has numerous honors, awards and publications to his credit. His clinical interests include EMS medical direction, EMS provider and patient safety, emergency airway management, wilderness EMS, as well as simulation in medical education.

Dr. Kupas’ own research has focused on two areas – emergency airway management and emergency medical services (EMS) provider and patient safety- related initiatives – which have ultimately led to changes in guidelines for patient care in many EMS systems. Additionally, Dr. Kupas was involved in writing a national position statement on patient restraint that guided the development of protocols for EMS operations across the country. He also participated in evidence-based reviews for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation that drafts the guidelines used by the American Heart Association and other resuscitation groups around the world.

W. Ann “Winnie” Maggiore, JD, NREMT-P

W. Ann “Winnie” Maggiore, NREMT-P, JD, has been a full-time paramedic, an assistant fire chief, a state EMS administrator and a criminal prosecutor. She has a full-time law practice in Albuquerque, N.M., defending physicians, dentists, nurses, law enforcement and EMS personnel against lawsuits. She also writes on EMS legal issues; frequently lectures at national conferences; and teaches legal issues to faculty, residents and paramedic students at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where she holds a volunteer faculty appointment. Winnie has been recognized in the Southwest Super Lawyers for the past five years.

Brent Myers, MD, MPH, FAEMS

Dr. Brent Myers serves as Chief Medical Officer for Evolution Health and Associate Chief Medical Officer for American Medical Response. He has deep expertise in systems of care, population health approaches and public health. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Myers served as Director and Medical Director of Emergency Medical Services for Wake County in Raleigh, N.C where he earned national recognition for his EMS innovation and research. He has more than 15 years’ experience in healthcare, including in-depth knowledge of acute care, delivery optimization, quality improvement and operational excellence.

Leading Evolution Health’s medical operations function and inter-professional clinical practice, Dr. Myers is responsible for population needs assessment, intervention design, clinical architecture, workflow and system implementation. Dr. Myers is also responsible for operations and medical oversight of Evolution Health’s Medical Command Centers, logistics, clinical education, telehealth and telemedicine practice. He works closely with Evolution Health’s local practices, clinicians, health systems, payers, regulatory agencies and other stakeholders to support integration and clinical excellence.

Dr. Myers earned his Doctor of Medicine from Wake Forest University School of Medicine before completing his residency in emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical Center and Emergency Medical Services fellowship at UNC Hospitals in North Carolina. Dr. Myers holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. Brent is Board certified in emergency medicine and emergency medical services. Brent is the current President of NAEMSP.

Jerry Overton, MPA

Jerry Overton serves as the Chair of the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, the organization charged with setting standards, establishing curriculum, and conducting research for public safety dispatch worldwide. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer, Richmond Ambulance Authority (RAA), Richmond, Virginia, for 18 years and had overall responsibility for the EMS system. Mr. Overton also served as the Chief Executive of the Kansas City, Missouri, EMS system. In addition, he provides technical assistance throughout , Europe, Asia, and Africa, including the design of an implementation plan for an Emergency Medical Transport program in Central Bosnia – Hercegovina during the war. Most recently, he conducted an EMS assessment for the country of Lebanon. He is the Past President of the American Ambulance Association, was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U. S.

2019 Medical Director’s Course (MDC) Faculty 5 Health System and is the Treasurer for the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine. He serves on the editorial boards of two leading prehospital care journals and has received numerous recognitions. As an expert in EMS system design and deployment strategies, he was named one of the 20 most influential leaders in EMS by JEMS magazine. Jerry received the 2016 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of EMTs.

David Persse, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

Dr. Persse's career in medicine started with ten years-experience as a field paramedic and paramedic instructor in upstate New York and New Jersey. After receiving his pre-med training at Columbia University in New York, he then attended Georgetown University School of Medicine. Graduating with honors in emergency medicine from Georgetown, Dr. Persse then completed residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. After residency, Dr. Persse completed a resuscitation research fellowship at the Ohio State University. Dr. Persse was then awarded a grant from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and completed fellowship training in emergency medical services and resuscitation at the Baylor College of Medicine. Following his EMS fellowship Dr. Persse became the Assistant Medical Director for the Emergency Medical Services system of Houston. He then returned to California to become the Medical Director of the Los Angeles County Paramedic Training Institute, and the Assistant Medical Director of the Los Angeles County EMS Agency. In 1996 Dr. Persse returned to Houston to assume the role of the Director of Emergency Medical Services for the City of Houston. In May of 2004 he was appointed by City Council as Houston’s Public Health Authority. He has been the lead author or co-author on over 50 peer reviewed journal articles.

Dr. Persse is also a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the South East Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council and a previous Chair of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. He is the recipient of the Keith Neely Outstanding Contribution to the National Association of EMS Physicians for his leadership during the Hurricane Katrina response, 2007, and the 2009 Michael K. Copass Award from the U.S. Metropolitan Medical Directors. He is a 2015 EMS Top 10 Innovator Award Winner from the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. Dr. Persse received an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities in Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine and was awarded the ACEP Outstanding Contribution to EMS Award in 2018. Dr. Persse is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School – Houston. He is also a Tactical Physician with the Houston Police S.W.A.T. team.

Edward Racht, MD

Dr. Ed Racht serves as the Chief Medical Officer for American Medical Response, having previously served as Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer for Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Atlanta.

Dr. Racht has had a long history in EMS, beginning with his tenure as Co-Medical Director of the Richmond (Virginia) Ambulance Authority. He was the EMS Medical Director for the Travis County and the City of Austin, Texas. Dr. Racht has received a number of honors and awards for community contributions in EMS and has received awards as an outstanding teacher. He served as Chairman of the Texas Governor’s Advisory Council on EMS for nine years. In the late 1990s, he and his colleagues helped develop Regional EMS Training Centers throughout the former Soviet Union. He has also been involved in many national initiatives to improve overall morbidity and mortality through effective development of clinically sophisticated EMS systems.

He received his medical degree from the Emory University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Medical College of Virginia.

Ronald Roth, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

Dr. Roth is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Chief of Division of EMS

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Ron started his career in EMS as an EMS with the University Ambulance Service at Penn State and continues to pursue his interest in prehospital care serving as the Medical Director for the City of Pittsburgh, Department of Public Safety and the Allegheny County Emergency Operations Center. He also serves as the Medical Director for the Dick’s Sporting Goods/Pittsburgh Marathon. He is a team physician withe the Pittsburgh Steelers and an Emergency Medicine consultant for the Pittsburgh Penguin hockey team.

Dr. Roth is the director of the EMS Fellowship at UPMC. He has collaborated with EMS providers and emergency medicine researchers on number studies on prehospital care, quality improvement and medical care at marathons.

Nicholas Simpson, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

Nick Simpson is an Emergency Medicine and EMS Physician at Hennepin Healthcare. He is a faculty physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at HCMC and an Assistant Professor of Emergency at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He serves as Assistant Medical Director for Hennepin EMS. Nick is the Assistant Program Director for the EMS Fellowship at Hennepin Healthcare and the Medical Director of the Hennepin EMS Education Department including the Paramedic Program. He also serves as an Associate Medical Director for the Hennepin ECMO program and helped to roll out the ECPR program for Refractory VF/VT arrest in the spring of 2018. Nick completed his residency training in 2014 in Emergency Medicine at HCMC. He was then the first ACGME accredited fellow in the Hennepin EMS Fellowship program, graduating in 2015. His research and clinical interests include airway management, cardiac arrest, ECMO, and crew resource management.

David K. Tan, MD, EMT-T, EMD, FAAEM, FAEMS

David K. Tan, M.D., EMT-T, FAEMS, is associate professor and chief of EMS in the division of emergency medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He is double board-certified in Emergency Medicine and EMS Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Tan remains very active in EMS at the local, state and national levels as an operational medical director for local police, fire, and EMS agencies, Vice-chairman of the Missouri State Advisory Council on EMS, and President-Elect of the National Association of EMS Physicians. Dr. Tan is a member of the EMS1 Editorial Advisory Board and provides medical direction to EMS1.com and the EMS1 Academy.

Andrew H. Travers, MD

Informally, Andrew has been an emergency physician for 20 years. He trained in Edmonton and now works in as an EMS and ED physician. Andrew is the husband of one, father of two, a brother to 5 siblings, and a son of stubborn Irish and Scottish parents. When not at work, Andrew enjoys motorcycles, power tools, and northern scotches. He is in complete denial about his job-related stress but is OK with that. He is not very fond of cats. Formally, Andrew Travers is a native of Nova Scotia having completed his undergraduate BSc and Medical degrees at Dalhousie University. He pursued postgraduate training in Epidemiology at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Public Health and received his fellowship training in Emergency Medicine with the Royal College of Physicians and of Canada in 1999. Currently he is professor and attending medical staff in the Dalhousie Department of Emergency Medicine, with cross-appointments in Community Health & Epidemiology, and is the Provincial Medical Director for Emergency Health Services Nova Scotia. In 2017, he was awarded the credential Canadian Certified Physician Executive from the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and the Canadian Society of Physician Leaders.

2019 Medical Director’s Course (MDC) Faculty 7 Henry E. Wang< MD, MS

Henry E. Wang, MD, MS is Professor and Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He has previously served as Emergency Medicine Faculty at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wang is recognized as one of the world’s most prolific Emergency Medicine investigators, with extramural funding supporting his work in prehospital airway management and resuscitation. Findings from his studies have motivated changes in the organization of prehospital care systems as well as the techniques applied in resuscitation. Dr. Wang is PI of the NIH-funded Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial (PART) which is testing strategies of paramedic airway management. Dr. Wang has played a leading role in the NIH-funded Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. He is also a Deputy Editor for the Annals of Emergency Medicine, the specialty’s leading journal.

Michelle Welsford, BSc, MD, FACEP, CCPE, FRCPC

Dr. Michelle Welsford is a staff emergency physician at Hamilton Health Sciences, and an Associate Professor at McMaster University where she works extensively with undergraduate medical students, emergency residents in the two training streams, and Prehospital Care Fellows. She is also the Medical Director for the Hamilton Health Sciences Centre for Paramedic Education & Research where she provides medical oversight for more than 1200 .

Michelle’s academic and research interests include prehospital and emergency department management of acute coronary syndromes, acute decompensated congestive heart failure (CHF), cardiac resuscitation, and sepsis recognition and early treatment. Additionally, she is involved with the continuum of care of STEMI patients from the field through to the hospital including use of prehospital 12-lead ECGs, STEMI management by paramedics, triage directly to cardiac centres, and optimization of first contact to reperfusion time.

Dr. Welsford has represented the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada to the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) for more than 10 years culminating in the 2005, 2010, and 2015 ILCOR Consensus on Science and Treatment Recommendations (COSTR). Most recently, she has been the co-chair of the Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Task Force authoring the 2015 ACS ILCOR COSTR and the 2015 HSFC/AHA ACS Guidelines.

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